RHINELANDER - If your roof springs a leak, you might put up with it for awhile. But would you put up with it for fourteen years? The Oneida County Jail has. Its roof started leaking as soon as it was built in 1999. The leaks occur most often in the spring when the snow melts. The jail has gotten so used to the leaks that it has a system in place.

"The administrative staff from the law enforcement center reports it to our maintenance staff. We, in turn, call the warranty holder and they schedule the firm to come and actually make the repairs almost immediately when we experience a leak," says Oneida County Facilities and Grounds Director Lu Ann Brunette.The warranty is up next June which means the county board needs to figure out a permanent fix soon.A new roof would cost about 800-thousand dollars. The county board would have to find a way to pay for it."The county is looking at options that would include possibly replacing the roof.... and then the other option would be to schedule preventative maintenance annually or semi-annually with a firm that would actually come in and evaluate the roof once or twice a year, and make any repairs as needed," Brunette says.Brunette says the warranty company has been very cooperative with the issue.

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